nginx - How can I remotely access a localhost application running on a Windows Server using PHP?

We are using Paxton Software and that is running on a Windows Server. The Windows Server is hosted and accessible by both a domain name (winserver.domain.com) and IP-address.

On the Windows Server, Paxton Software is running and they have a Web API (REST) using nginx. We can call the API on the Windows Server by using localhost:8080 as hostname (using RDP). So far, so good.

Now, we would like to create a PHP application that is connecting to multiple Web API's of Paxton. Basically, it should connect to multiple Windows Servers and it should be possible to call the API endpoint.

What we've tried: We tried to use CURL to do a request to the windows server. We tried to setup a proxy to the IP-address:3389 (that's the port RDP is using), using a PROXYUSERPWD to login. Sadly, that didn't work, because of the following error: Recv failure: Connection was reset. The script:

$url = 'http://localhost:8080/webapihelp/';
$proxy = 'http://0.0.0.0:3389';
$proxyauth = 'username123:password456';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, $proxyauth);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
$curlResponse = curl_exec($ch);
var_dump(curl_error($ch));
curl_close($ch);
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Is it possible to connect to the Windows Server directly? If not, what do we need in order to achieve that goal?

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